About the book:
In Summer, the Imago (giant cicadas) rise in great numbers to feed on the bones of the dead. Monks and villagers dry corpses in huge burial mounds to satisfy their hunger. A few hundred Imago are spotted each summer, but once in a hundred years, the Century Brood appears. Tens of thousands of Imago climb from deep soil and reduce the land to rubble. Now the Century Brood has been unearthed and the Cloud Empress has gone missing.
Cloud Empress is an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. Cloud Empress places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant magical cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.
What’s Inside
- 4 evocative jobs: Sellsword, Lordling, Magician, and Courier
- 30 unique science fantasy skills
- 30 magical spells each with amazing effects and dangerous consequences
- 30 chalk crests capable of unleashing ancient powers
- 20 new science fantasy tools of violence
- 10 strange utility spores
- 7 animals, friends, and foes
- 26 illustrations
- And much more!
